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The birds that stay / Ann Lambert.
"In a little village north of Montreal, a reclusive old woman is found strangled and frozen outside her home. Roméo Leduc, the enigmatic Chief Inspector for Homicide, is one day away from his first vacation in years, and reluctantly answers the call on the case. Roméo suspects a local biker gang is involved in what appears to be a robbery gone awry--or was the old woman a victim of a violent hate crime?"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781772600919 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 331 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : Second Story Press, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
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| Subject: | Murder > Investigation > Fiction. Laurentian Mountains (Québec) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Lambe | 31681010138469 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Orca Book Publishers
The murder of an older woman proves that the sins of the past are never forgotten, or forgiven. - Orca Book Publishers
"Ten Thrillers That Will Keep You on the Edge of Your Seat Until Summertime" - The Globe and Mail. In a small village in the Laurentians, north of Montreal, a reclusive older woman is found strangled outside her home. Roméo Leduc, Chief Inspector for Homicide, is one day away from his first vacation in years but reluctantly answers the call on the case. Marie Russell lives in the same small community. She did not know her elderly neighbour, and she does not expect to become embroiled in solving her murder. But when a startling new clue emerges, Marie becomes an inadvertent detective. As Marie and Roméo combine wits to find the killer, they are forced to face demons from their own pasts as they confront a case where no one and nothing is really as it seems.February 18, 2019 - History will not stay buried in The Birds That Stay, the debut mystery from playwright Ann Lambert and the first in her Russell and Leduc series.As winter approaches a small village in the Laurentians, north of Montreal, a reclusive older woman is found strangled outside her home. Roméo Leduc, the enigmatic Chief Inspector for Homicide, is one day away from his first vacation in years but reluctantly answers the call on the case.Marie Russell did not know her elderly neighbour, and she does not expect to become embroiled in solving her murder. Like most people in her sleepy town, Marie values the quiet months after tourists and cottagers leave. But when a startling clue links the crime to a terrible incident that happened on Marieâs suburban Montreal street in the 1970s, Marie becomes an inadvertent detective.As Marie and Roméo combine wits to find the killer, they are forced to face demons from their own pasts as they confront a case where no one and nothing is really as it seems."Layers of a mysterious past must be unravelled to solve a murder in the present in this intimate journey through time.â â John Farrow, author of The Storm Murders Trilogy"Riveting and elegantly written, with secret histories and crimes past and present, this marvelous novel surprises at every turn."âAyelet Waldman, author of Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road, and The Mommy Track mystery series.As winter approaches a small village in the Laurentians, north of Montreal, a reclusive older woman is found strangled outside her home. Roméo Leduc, the enigmatic Chief Inspector for Homicide, is one day away from his first vacation in years but reluctantly answers the call on the case. Marie Russell did not know her elderly neighbour, and she does not expect to become embroiled in solving her murder. Like most people in her sleepy town, Marie values the quiet months after tourists and cottagers leave. But when a startling clue links the crime to a terrible incident that happened on Marieâs suburban Montreal street in the 1970s, Marie becomes an inadvertent detective. As Marie and Roméo combine wits to find the killer, they are forced to face demons from their own pasts as they confront a case where no one and nothing is really as it seems. "Layers of a mysterious past must be unraveled to solve a murder in the present in this intimate journey through time."- John Farrow, author of The Storm Murders Trilogy - Univ of Toronto Pr
In a small village in the Laurentians north of Montreal, a reclusive older woman is found strangled and frozen outside her home. Roméo Leduc, the enigmatic Chief Inspector for Homicide, is one day away from his first vacation in years, and reluctantly answers the call on the case. Roméo suspects a local biker gang is involved in what appears to be a robbery gone awryâ??or was the old woman a victim of a violent hate crime?
Marie Russell, a 58-year old writer and divorced mother of two, lives next door to the victim. Marie becomes an inadvertent detective when her mother, suffering from dementia, offers a startling clue that links the woman's murder to a terrible incident that happened on Marie's suburban Montreal street in the 1970's. Together, Marie and Roméo discover that the murder goes even further back, to another crime during the darkest days in Hungary at the end of WWII. As they combine wits to find the killer, they are forced to face demons from their own pasts as they confront a cast of characters from the Quebec of yesterday and today; where no one and nothing is really as it seems. - Univ of Toronto Pr
A chilling mystery set deep in the heart of the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec where the sins of the past come back to wreak devastating consequences on the present.
